Portland bloggers who use WordPress are set to gather for the city’s first WordPress user group meeting on Thursday, Jan. 15, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The meeting takes place at CubeSpace, the inner S.E. Portland workspace community for writers, programmers and other independently employed people. According to the organizers, the meeting will cover: Getting […]
Merry Christmas to all
WordCount is busy celebrating the season and playing in the snow. Beginning Monday, Dec. 29, I’ll spend a week rerunning some of the year’s most popular posts on freelancing, digital media and the news business. Until then, Merry Christmas!
In Portland, the big story is snow
The weather here has turned from major distraction to major story. In Portland, snow of any kind is a rarity and snow before Christmas just doesn’t happen all that often. The city’s at sea level, locked between the coastal mountain range and the Cascades, so conditions have to be just right for the stuff coming […]
Portland Wordstock book festival recap
I went to Portland’s Wordstock book festival over the weekend. John Hodgman, the PC in the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads, was one of the stars of a weekend that was filled with signings, readings, writing workshops and other book-related activities. In case you missed it, I wrote this guest post about Wordstock […]
Mediabistro hosts Portland 'Election Hangover Party' on Nov. 18
The scene-sters at Mediabistro.com know how to work an angle. With last week’s historic election still fresh in everyone’s minds, Mediabistro has renamed the writers gatherings it regularly hosts “Election Hangover Parties.” Whether you’re celebrating Obama’s victory, the end of what seemed like an endless campaign or just want an excuse to talk about those […]
Come tomorrow, stop what you're doing and vote
Tomorrow is Election Day. In honor of the occasion, I’m interrupting my regularly scheduled posts to encourage everyone to take a few minutes out of your normal routine and vote. Here in Oregon, we vote by mail. I sent in my ballot last week, so I’ll be spending tomorrow with one eye on work and […]